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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25

sudden Deaths.-Last Sunday
night Miss Mary Hunter, an aged resi-
dent of Shepherdstown, was suddenly
taken i'll, and before physician could
arrive she had died. The deceased was
a sister of Capt. j. II. l.. Hunter of this
county. and was - years of age.
On Wednesday the community was
greatly shocked by theannouucemento oil
the death of Mrs. Funk, the young wife
of Mr.. John J. Funk. Mrs. Funk had
been assisting in the funeral prepare
tons of Miss Mary Hunter, and about
eleven o'clock returned to her home APP
parently as well as she ever was. When
she arrived mt her residence she spoke to
several other persons in the house, and
then went 10 her room. In a few mo-
ments II heavy fall was heard and upon
an investigation being made Mrs. Funk
was found to be lying lifeless on the
floor. DR.. Marshall was hastily sum-
moned, but as he arrived the unfortu-
nate lady breathed her last, without hav-
ing recovered consciousness. 1t could
scarcely be realized ~ her friends that
she who had been seen on the street
half hour before was now cold in
death. TO the bereaved husband is eX-
tended the sympathy of the entire CONF
munity. Mrs. Funk was formerly Miss
Davis, of Cavetown, Washington coun-
ty, Nd, and her remains were taken to
that place for interment.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25
Change. In abe school Law

Changes In tho School Law.
Through the kindness OF Prof. Nc.
Murran we are enabled to lay before our
readers the following changes in the
school laws, made by the recent Legis-
lature:
STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
County certificates are no longer to be
issued to teachers. but a State Board Of
Examiners, consisting Of four compe-
tent persons, one from each Congress
sional district, appointed by the State
Superintendent of Free Schools, shall
hereafter examine teachers and issue
certificates Of two grades: First-class
twelve years and second class for six
years. All certificates issued by this
Board shall be countersigned by the
State Superintendent and shall be equiv
alent to number one county certificate
and shall be valid in any county and
school district in the State, unless re-
voked by the State Board for good cause.
The requirements and conditions for a
first-class (twelve-year Gel tificate) are
not given in the law as published. but
the second-class isix.year certificates)
are to be issued to applicants of satisfac-
tory attachments in the branches re-
quired now for county certificates and,
in addition, not fewer than four other
branches to be determined upon by the
Board.
The second-class certificates shall be
issued upon application, without an ex-
animation, to the graduates of the State
Normal School and its Branches and of
the State University. When such grad
yates shall present to the Board satisfac-
tory evidence that they have taught sue
cessfully three years in the State under
number one county certificate, two Of
said three years Immediately preced-
ing the application for such certificate.
Teachers who shall present to the
Board satisfactory evidence that they
have taught successfully four years out
Of six on second-class certificate, shall
be entitled to receive, without an exam
inatiOn, first class certificate at the ex-
pration of their second. class certificate.
Teachers holding first-class certificate,
who shall have taught eight years out
of the twelve years, shall be entitled TO
have the same renewed, without an ex-
animation, at the expiration of the
twelve years.
Each applicant for certificate shall
pay 10 the Board of Examiners fee Of
five dollars, but the law omits to say
whether, or not, the same fee has to be
paid for each renewal.
The Board shall meet at, at least, two
different places, in each Congressional
district, in each year, for the purpose of
examining applicants and granting GER
tificates.
The law does not say whether the
teachers that now hold "four-year
county certificates shall be permitted
TO teach i'm their respective counties
until the time of said certificates shall
expire, but justice to the holders would
require that this privilege be granted to
them.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25
Married.-At the home of the bride,

Married.-Af the home Of the bride,
by the Rev. 6. Cleland, of Louisville.
on Wednesday, March 10th, Mr.. Robert
c. Richardson, of Churchville, Md. to
Miss May Murphy, of O'Bannon, KY.
No cards.
One of the interesting features of the
past week is announced In the marriage
OF Miss May Murphy, daughter Of Mr..
Thomas Murphy, of OBannon, KY,
and sister of Mrs. j. F. Welshans, of
this place, to Mr.. Robert G. Richardson,
the popular young merchant of Church.
vile, Md. The groom was accompanied
to Kentucky by his business partner
and uncle, Mr.. John G.. Rouse. of Bel
air, Mo-, and also Mr.. B. Rouse, of Bal
timore. The ceremony took place at
high noon, PLAIN gold band being used
the bI ide was dressed handsomely in
heavily corded heliotrope silk, wear
ing the natural orange blossoms which
had been shipped from Florida under
the supervision of MIR. Walter b. Muir
Ihy, for the occasion, and carried an
exquisite bouquet. The house was hand
somely decorated with Marshalneil roses
and other choice cut flowers, and after
the ceremony reception took place in
which relations and friends participa-
ted. The party left on the 2 .25p. m. train
for the East. They were received by
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Rouse on Thursday
evening and on Friday continued their
bridal trip. A great many friends wish
them long and happy future, and none
more sincerely than the old frienGs
Miss May has left behind in Shepherds
town. The happy couple were very
beautifully and substantially remember
ed i'm handsome collection of presents
among them some rare pictures. The
gift of the groom was a handsome dia-
mond brooch and heavily chased ring
qnaintly set with noonstones.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25
is. FLEMING, Notary Public.

WILL, take ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF Deeds,
w Power Of Attorney, Afidayits, Deposi.
tons, and attend TO all business connected
with the Office.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25
NORMAL SCHOOLS.

The only changes made in reference
to Normal Schools are the following:
LIST, The Stale Superintendent shall,
if possible, every year, make arrange
ments with some suitable institution of
learning in this State, for the education
and normal school training of num-
Der of colored teachers, in the proper
ton that the colored population of the
State bear to the white as shown by the
ratio of the nOn-paying white students
i'm the normal schools to the white pop
ulation of the State. The amount paid
for each district shall not exceed the
amount allowed for each non-paying
white student.
%, So much money as may be neces-
sarv to pay the amount directed to be
paid annually to the normal schools is
hereby appropriated and made payable
from year to year il the manner pre-
scribed in the Ninety sixth Section, but
if any normal school does not earn The
amount of two thousand and two hun
dred dollars by the method therein set
forth, the residue thereof shall be used
for the employment of teachers in said
schools as directed by the Board of Re-
gents.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25
EACTSi EACTSt

FACTS! FACTS!
Our l2H-cent Satines are superior to any in
this city.
Our J'-cent Mems Shirts are the best ever Of
Our 25-cent Balbriggan Hose are special
bargain.
We have Crinkled Seersuckers in all color
ings.
Our Novelties in Velvets are new and stylish
Our 25-cent silk Gloves are not equaled.
Our IS cent counterpanes are very cheap.
We have a complete line OF Hamburgs and
Laces.
Our Black Dress Goods stock contains the
latest weaves.
Our Black Silks (Gulnetts) are guaranteed.
Our Colored Silks are in all shades.
We have the most complete line OF Hose.
Our Housekeeping Goods are all AT old prices.
Our Tricots We acknowledge the best quail
ties.
Our Lace Curtains and Scrim are the newest
patterns.
CORSETS! CORSETs!
GU Special 5O-cent' Corset is the best ever
offered.
"Tampico Corsets" equal to Coraline at less
"Coraline Corsets" in all sizes.
"Spiral Side Corsets" are easy and comfort
able.
Health Corsets" have Shoulder Straps and
Perfumed.
duplex Corsets' cut over the hip.
"Woven Corsets" light and very durable.
abdominal Corsets" elegant for stout la
dies.
"Nursng Corsets" convenient and well
made.
DRESS GOODS!
Our line Of Dress Goods and Trimmings,
Embroidery, everything staple and desirable,
we continue Offering our usual bargains and
can without an exception suit every de-
mand.
Full assortment all the time at
X. l.. SPANGLER'S,
Dry Goods and Notion House,
Hagerstown, Md.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25
PendletOn
THE BARGAIN-GIvER. -

wishes to assure the public thst b
will endeavor to still further merit
their good opinion the coming season
by placing ON his goods prices thst
will be the towns talk
1t will be to your interest p eall
and examine bis goods before ~
make your spring purchases. - !.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25
HagerstoNn Business Locals.
r. L. SPANGLER'S
F.!arch Specials.

Our February sales in silk and wool mix
lures and checks have compelled us TO dupii-
cate. We have secured more of the bsst and
ces,
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25

How dear to my heart is the elegant
Rooster,
Old Public Opinion we all know so
well.
Who lifts up his voice, when the
people are tickled,
And crows when his tidings are JOY.
full to tell.
The Rooster, the Rooster,
The bouncing old Rooster,
The bully old Rooster with tidings to
tell.
Now lately this Rooster has taken to
Growing
In favor of me and the goods that j
sell.
Ny trade is increasing, and daily in
creasing,
Due to Public Opinion, ! know very
well.
Then hurrah for the Rooster,
The bouncing old Rooster,
The bully old Rooster with tidings to
tell.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-03-25
We do not crave your
patrOnage-We'll
deserve it!

Just think of Indifferent kinds at
40c. per gallon. n. o. Molasses has
advanced, but we are still selling il ut
60c. per gallon. We expect in this
week
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-15
lmagineS Himself a Second
Noah.

There is a strange old man living OF
Bear lake in New Brunswick. three
days journey through the woods from
marlborough Maine who has been
told by a spirit that there is shortly to
be second great food in which he is
to play the Part of Noah. He has pre-.
pared himself with an ark which is an.
chored to his little log cabin and which
is ready to start on sail at a moment
notice. The name of the prospective
Noah is John Hobson and in his early
DAYS he lived in Amity, Ne. The Ind
lans about Bear Lake call him Sagonita
which literally translated means Crack
ed on the Big Canoe. As Is inches of
rain have fallen during the rs hours.
His neighbors are treating the old man
WELL
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-15
When Advertising is Wanted.

There nothing on earth so mysterl-
Gus funny as newspaper advertise
ment, The prime, first, last and all
the-time object of an advertisement is
to draw custom. 1t is not, was not,
and never will be designated for any
other human purpose. So the merch-
ant waits till the busy season comes,
and his store so full of customers he
can get his hat off, and then he rush
es to the newspapers and puts in his
advertisement When the dull season
gets along and there is no trade, and
he wants to sell goods so bad he can t
pay his rent, he takes out his advertise
ment. That is some of them do, but
occasionally a level-headed merchant
puts III bigger one, and scoops all the
business, while his neighbors are max
ing mortgages to pay the gas bill. There
are times you couldn't stop people
from buying everything in the store if
you planted cannon behind the door
and that the time the advertisement
IS sent out on Its holy mission. 1t
makes light work for the advertisement,
for a chalk mark on the sidewalk could
do all that was needed and have half
holiday six days in the week but, who
wants to favor an advertisement? They
are built to do hard work, and should
be sent out in dull days when custom
er has to be knocked down with hard
facts and kicked insensible with bank
rupt reductions, and dragged in with
irresistible slaughter of prices, before
he will pay cent That's the aim and
end of an advertisement, and if you
ever open store don t try to get them
to come when they are already sticking
out OF the windows, but give them your
advertisement right between the eys in
the dali season, and YOU will wax rich.
Write this down, where you II fall over
1t every day: The time to draw bust
ness IS when YOU want business, and
not when You have more business than
You can attend 10 already.-St Louis
Furniture Review.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-15
KANSAS ALL RIGHT

The Topeka Commonwealth has given
the subject close attention and concludes
that Kansas crops in general are much
better this year than the state is common
ly credited. 1t agrees with the TINES
that corn will exceed half crop by a
large per cent Commenting on the stu
alton it SAYS:
Official and unofficial reports made
within the past few days as to the condi-
ton of the corn crop and the probable
yield of that cereal fully confirms the
opinion expressed some weeks ago by the
Commonwealth. A careful examination
of our state exchanges led us to the CON
clusion that our corn crop would turn out
to be about seventy per cent. of the yield
OF last year. or more than sixty per cent
of what the acreage should have yielded
this year. This is what now is promised
There will be lots of corn in the state
Kansas has done well in all kinds of pro
ducts. When the severity and wide ex-
tent Of the urOuth are considered, ana our
condition is compared with that of other
states in the Mississippi valley, we have
cause for cOngratulation. The test of this
season has been severe but the state has
responded nobly. There is nothing in
our situation that need to be hidden I'M
der exaggeration. Our commonwealth
has been favored. Our climate has been
less trying during the drouth than either
Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio or Indiana. We
have had more rain than either of these
states. Our corn crop is better our oats
crop ahead; our wheat crop as good
Other crops as good or better. There is
less cause for discomfort here than in any
OF those states. Truly do we live in God S
good country"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-15
NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION.

Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned
commissioners, thereunto duly appointed by the
Honorable j: C. Strang, Judge of the District
Court of Ford county, Kansas, WILL on the 9Th day
OF september, A. ID. 1881, proceed to lay off, accord
ing to law, for the Pacific Mutual Telegraph Com
pany, along the line Of its proposed telegraph as
located through the county of Ford State of Kan.
sas, a route for said proposed telegraph upon
wnlcn 10 erect such poles piers, abutments, wires,
and other necessary fixtures for magnetic tele-
graph, and to make such changes Of location
OF any part of said line, as may from
time to time be deemed necessary, and the right
of access to construct said line and when erected,
from time to time as may be required, to repair
the same, along the line of the Atchison, Topeka
q santa Fe railroad company, az the same is now
located and constructed, and upon the lands imme-
dlately adjoining the said line of railroad on both
sides thereof to the entire width of the rght-of-
way OF said railroad company, whether the same
are owned by private in fee or in any less
estate or BY any corporation, whether acquired by
purchase or by virtue Of any provision in the char
ter OF said corporation, otherwise: which loca-
ton Is more definitely shown by the duly certified
office OF the county clerk OF said county, which is
hereby referred to for greater certainty; and we
VIII carefully survey and carefully ascertain the
quantity ofland necessary for such purpose out
OF eacn quarter section, other lot of land
through which said route is 30 located and ap-
praise the value of such portion of any such
quarter section, or other lot Of land, and assess
me, damage thereto: and when We shall ascertain
mat snch portion of such quarter section or lot
DcionSs 10 inherent owners, we will appraise the
value and assess the damages Of each such
owners interest. We will commence to lay off
such route AZ aforesaid, on the line of said COM
pany railroad, as located at Dodge City, Kansas,
on said day, and will adjourn from time to time
until our labore in this behalf-are completed
Dated this Sd day Of August, A. d. 1887
W. G. LEE,
VIZ. TlrGHNAN,
CHAe. E. GALLAGHER,
Commissioners,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-15
THE TIMES.
RYE FOR PASTURE.

If we should have wet fall the native
pasture grass will be spoiled, but if the
rains spoil the buffalo grass they will in
sure good growth of rye, and one acre
of good rye would furnish as much feed
as six acres of buffals grass, and there is
no better feed for cattle than green rye
Calves with good patch of rye to run
on will grow faster in the winter than III
summer for in winter there are no flies
to bother them, and the cold of winter,
except for very few days, is more en-
dureable than the heat of summer And
it does a rye field good to pasture it, 1t
will stand the winter better and make a
bigger crop. We have tried it fully, and
know this is true. The tramping presses
the ground around the roots and prevents
the wind from blowing it away or drying
it out. A good crop of rye will help a
farmer out wonderfully 1t can be used
for hog feed without grinding, by put
tina it in the swill barrel to sour. Or it
can be made into excellent chop feed for
horses. oxen or cows by putting 1t
through the Little Giant feed mill. But
if you get good crop of fall, winter and
spring pasture, and fail to get kernel Of
grain, you have made good thing. In
many parts of this state, and in other
states, il is an approved practice to SOW
rye between the corn rows, at the last
time of blowing or tultivating, and let il
get an early start solely for winter and
fall pasture, with the intention of turn
ing it under in the spring TO enrich the
ground. The pasture is the big thing,
and by means of it the farmers have their
yearlings as big as their two-yearolds
used to be when kept on dry feed. PEG
pie who have not tried ii have but faint
idea of the way calves will grow that
have green rye field to run on all fall
and winter. 1t is almost like magic, and
We want every farmer in the Southwest
to try it once. Our word for it, if the
season proves favorable they will keep
on trying ii forever The farmer has
two chances for a crop in this way If
the rye crop fails he will know it in good
season TO put in corn.
But in some neighborhoods il may be
difficult to get rye for seed We learn
that it is scarce in the market us yet, and
it may keep SO. If that should be the
case sow wheat and treat il in the same
way. If it comes through the winter all
right save it, and if not, plow it under,
but i'm either case let your calves have a
chance at it except when the ground is
muddy. Feeding it down only makes ii
root the deeper and shoot out the more.
That is our observation and experience
Winter pasture makes fat calves.-Garden
City Sentinel.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-15
Going and Coming.

&c editorial herewith, from the Hla-
y World, we presume was written
is ~ ) Wilder. 1t presents the stu
= Kansas at the present time
very fairly. It's predictions, as every
old Kansan knows. will be verified
a few thousand peope who went to
western Kansas this year will also come
back this year The movement began
ever month ago There is no panic !;
30 loud talk in fact the returning
wagons and people attract very little
attention. There has been general
failure of the corn crop in fifteen or
twenty counties These people who
are returning relied wholly upon corn.
They did not 90 out west in time to put
in wheat or rye. They had no old corn
on hand of any kind to carry them
through the winter. And so they are
quietly going back to their wife's folks,
in Inieanna. This has been done many
times before, in Kansas and in all new
states, and will keep gong on until
every quarter section in Kansas is, not
deserted, but occupied. The movers
viii find that when they get to Iowa, H.
linos. Indiana, and Michigan that large
portions Of those states have had a
worse drouth than Kansas has had. The
weakened portion of them will stay
with their wife folks the brave ones
will conc back next year, find rain and
wet enough and will stay.
Kansas has passed the point where
the gain or loss of five or ten thousand
people starts a ripple on the surface of
calm content We are sorry these peo-
pie have to 80 back, but we know that
brave men viii fill their places.
Windmills, irrigation, artesian wells,
together with very much more rain than
we once believed we had, are now at
home in all parts Of western Kansas.
The boom year, although suffering
from dry summer, has seen great
NANNY young men and women 60 to
western Kansas who Will not come back.
They are not built that way. They
are having an easier time than their
fathers had IN eastern Kansas. There
is now Il railroad in nearly every Kan.
sas county. There is a western as we'll
as an eastern market They can buy
coal cheaper than we could cut wood
from the few trees then visible in east
ern Kansas. They are a great deal
nearer the store, the doctor, the church
and the daily paper than we used to be.
And they have just as much nerve.
They can raise wheat and cattle and
potatoes. They are adopting the north
ern short season corn, and they are
going to make 1t go
The last three seasons have been
dry ones in this part of the state. Next
year it will be wet too wet, probably,
but we shall raise immense crops. All
Of the transitory blooms will be over
and we'll over, and railroad building
will rest for time. But the next six
years will be the most prosperous that
Kansas has ever seen. Hold on to
your farm. Don't sell your land. 1t
is a gold mine. These years of pros
perity will pay off the mortgage, make
you and your children happy and indie
pendent, and make Kansas the first
state in the American Union.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-15
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at Garden City, Kans., July Goth, 1887
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Judge, or in his absence,
L. E. McGarry, Clerk of the District Court lat Dodge
City, Kansas, September oath, 1887, viz
Stephen Martin, for the u sell sell of swl4 and
lot T. section in township Is south, of range %,
west of the 9Th P NJ.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation Of said
land viz:
David P. Hemingway. Of Dodge City, Kansas
Joel NJ Whitley, of Spearville, Kansas: A, II.
Long and Charles Carol, both of Dodge City Kan
sas.
au 4-6t CT. NJ. NILES, Register.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-15
DODGE CITY BUILDING & LOAN

ASSOCIATION - Authorized chartered capital,
100000. Loans money to its stock holders at 40
per cent per annum. Principal and interest pay
paying investment in the city. Stated meetings of
stock holders 1st Tuesday of each month, at city
building No. 3, on Spruce street. T. L. McCarty,
NJ. d., Pres; NJ. V. Markley, Vice Pres; r. W.
Evans, Cashr. LIST Nat. Blk, Treas; B. F. Milton,
Atty. j. NJ. BELL at Sun Set Mills, Secy.